Ann Scott (First Lady of Florida)
Frances Annette Scott is an American businesswoman who served as the first lady of Florida from 2011 to 2019 as the wife of former Governor Rick Scott. She focused her time as first lady promoting childhood literacy.
Scott was raised in Texas and moved to Missouri where she met her future husband in high school. She studied business administration at Southern Methodist University in Texas and worked as a tax accountant for a gas and oil company. She left corporate work when her daughters were born.
Early life
Frances Annette Scott was born on February 11, 1952, in Mobile, Alabama, and grew up in Dallas, Texas. Her father was a regional manager for Sunshine Biscuits, a Nabisco competitor. Her mother stayed at home and raised the children. Scott is the second oldest of four children. Her family moved her senior year to Kansas City, Missouri, where she graduated from North [Kansas City High School] in 1970.Ann Scott worked after high school and saved money to go to college. She married in April 1972 Rick Scott who she met senior year in high school. They had a modest wedding at a Baptist church in Kansas City. Rick Scott before the wedding had just finished naval recruitment training, afterwards they moved to his first naval posting in Newport, Rhode Island. She worked as a legal secretary while there. They were 15 months in Rhode Island, before her husband was discharged from the navy and they moved back to Kansas City.
Afterwards, Scott attended community college and worked full time, while her husband attended law school. She received her bachelor's degree in business administration from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas in 1980.
After graduating Scott worked as a tax accountant for Texas Oil and Gas. She left work when she was thirty and had her first daughter, Allison. Two years later she had a second daughter, Jordan. Her husband later became the 45th governor of Florida and served two terms from 2011 to 2019.